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Post subject: Who got you started?
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:56 pm
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Howdy all. I've been reading up on the forums, but have only recently begun posting. It's fantastic reading about what drives everyone's love for Fender (and guitars and music in general). Here's my conversation starter:

Who or what band inspired you to pick up a guitar and learn to play? If you compose/write your own music and/or play in a band, what artist inspired you to first get into that?

Pearl Jam was the band that got me playing guitar, Better Than Ezra got me into songwriting, and Belle & Sebastian were who inspired me to get a band together and play out. That makes me a product of the 90's I suppose?

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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 2:41 pm
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Well, my friends and I were making a small movie. It was going to be a music video and I was going to be "playing" guitar. I had no clue what to do, so my good friend showed me some chords so that I could act like I was playing. (Am) and (D) I think. Afterwards, I spent hours playing just those chords. I couldn't believe the music that I was making. It was amazing. I went out and got a LP copy, and then a Starcaster starter pack after that. I learned so much in one year, and I joined a band. Down the road with much research and experience under my belt, I used Craigslist and got the guitar of my dreams, an American Standard Stratocaster. Olympic White with maple. I have loved it ever since.
So, who got me started? My good friend Jordan.

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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 3:08 pm
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In England, back in 1962 a guy called Hank Marvin was blowing everybody away playing his red Strat, with a group called The Shadows and it was he who inspired me to play guitar. Followed later by groups like, The Yardbirds, The Who, The Stones, The Kinks and on and on, right up to the present day.
Up until a few years ago I worked as a composer for a Library Publisher, being a member of The Guild Of International Songwriters And Composers and MCPS and PRS, the two have now merged to all intents.
I now mostly entertain myself at home but I would love to play in a band again, I really miss the buz.
Anyway briefly, thats it.
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 3:17 pm
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The Stones on Ed Sullivan in 64 did it for me. 8) Mike

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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 3:23 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 3:26 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 3:47 pm
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For me it was Chris and Rich Robinson. When they released their "Brothers of a Feather" album and DVD I got hooked.

I had always loved music. Even tried drums and guitar when I was about 13. Back then it did not stick. So 13 years later I gave it another try and now I am hooked. It has been a little over a year and there is no stopping me now.


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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 3:53 pm
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My music teacher told me I should take up an instrument. I hate to say it but Peter Frampton inspired me then I spent most of the 80's hating this guy called Eddie Van Halen until I got a book and CD called play like EVH.
I also hated Madonna but that's a whole other story.


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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:24 pm
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for starters I began to listen and play like fairly new blues like Clapton's blues and from that I god deeper and deeper in to the blues and now I'm at Jimi Hendrix's time ........ :)

The Blues President 8)

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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:45 pm
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Listening to Led Zeppelin and hendrix cds my dad gave me.


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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 8:14 pm
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all of my life id seen my father play and i saw the passion he had for it and how much he loved freeing himself through the guitar and eventually i picked up a guitar and my older brother who was playing bass at that time showed me the main part to smoke on the water and i saw how proud it made him and how fun it was to create these sounds and ever since ive put all my effort and soul into it and now its my life

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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 8:17 pm
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My brother did.

He was a few years older than me, wanted to learn to play guitar, so borrowed one from my uncle. He found "other" interests, and left the guitar in the closet. Few years later I decided "Hey, if he couldn't do it, I bet I can" as I was very competitive with him.

Been playing over 10 years now, thanks to him quitting.

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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 8:34 pm
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Well, somehow, I hate to admit it but...Guitar Hero got me onto the real thing. I didn't have dreams of being a "superstar" or anything (and I still don't). But I saw my little character in the backround and I thought, "It looks like he's having so much fun...playing the real thing...here I am with a plastic guitar..." And then I was inspired. To this day, I might play Guitar Hero once every week or two because I'm too focused on the real thing. I've got to say, the real thing is so much more fun than the plastic toy. :D


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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 9:02 pm
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I can't really say I know what bands/ artists got me started(or want to get started) as I had been wanting to play at least half a decade before I actually did start. Probably just people I knew playing and kind'a wanting that kind of cool skill.

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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 10:09 pm
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My Dad. He got me into music early on, but he brought home the first rock CD I had ever heard when I was about 10. It was an album by Audio Adrenaline called Hit Parade. I heard the electric guitar and asked my Dad what instrument that was. As soon as he that I decided I wanted to play it. I looked through my Dad's musician's friend magazine (he plays bass) and I saw the page with the Fender Strats and I knew I wanted to play that. So I got my first guitar when I was 11, a purple Squier Affinity Strat that I still have and use. I never got around to really playing it for real until I was about 13. I was bored one day and it occurred to me that I had a guitar, and it just grew from there. There were always rocky parts when I didn't want to play anymore. It was during one of those rocky times that I first heard SRV, which is what keeps me going.

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